NO aircraft is ever ugly.

Regards,
Herman

"J.F." schreef in bericht
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The Tupolev ANT-20 (also known as the Maxim Gorky) was a Soviet six
engined
aircraft, the largest in the 1930s.

The ANT-20 was a giant eight-engined propaganda monoplane, developed from
the TB-4. The ANT-20 carried 72 passengers. It also lifted a bar and
buffet,
film processing lab, and a movie theater, besides a laundry, a pharmacy
and
a printing press. This indicates that it was used above the more remote
areas of the USSR, places that still did without the blessing of
civilization. It was also fitted with loudspeakers.
Lost in accident after pilot of escorting fighter started to loop around
the
wing and crushed into it. Its replacement was ANT-20bis;